More than 40 children
aged 6-12 living on the Ganga ghats swam across the river and
collected polybags and worship materials floating on the surface
of the river. They were participating in the second leg of Eco
Friends Clean Ganga Campaign here at Golaghat on Monday. The polybags
and worship materials thus collected were buried in a pit. The
children named Barro, Pappu, Sunny, Billo, Komal and Shubham cajoled
the devotees not to thrown polybags in the river as they were
ecologically damaging. Banners such as Don’t offer plastic
but prayers to Ganga and Ganga is gasping for breath were also
displayed at the ghat. People visiting the ghats were distributed
pamphlets as well. These pamphlets urged the masses to listen
to the wails of Ganga and save it from a slow death.

At Shuklaganj ghat,
members of Eco Friends ferried on boats and raised slogans to
spread the Ganga depollution message. Polybags and other waste
was taken out from the river and dumped in pits. The members also
explained the people visiting the ghats the necessity to keep
Ganga clean. Mohammad Owais, Archana Jaiswal, Namita Singh, Piyush
Jaiswal, Abdul Shamim and Sagarika Srivastava were the main participants
in today’s campaign.